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Surface and bulk electronic structure of aluminium diboride
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dc.contributor.author | Sunko, Veronika | |
dc.contributor.author | Milosavljević, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mazzola, F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Oliver Jon | |
dc.contributor.author | Burkhardt, U. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kim, T. K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosner, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Grin, Yu. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mackenzie, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | King, Phil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-29T14:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-29T14:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07-22 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sunko , V , Milosavljević , D , Mazzola , F , Clark , O J , Burkhardt , U , Kim , T K , Rosner , H , Grin , Y , Mackenzie , A & King , P 2020 , ' Surface and bulk electronic structure of aluminium diboride ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 102 , 035143 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.035143 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1098-0121 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 268894140 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 2aa1dfcd-50c0-42cd-9e8d-07332d7b3907 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000550992900002 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85089561382 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20364 | |
dc.description | Funding: We acknowledge support from the European Research Council (grant no. ERC-714193 QUESTDO), the Royal Society and the Max Planck Society. V.S. and O.J.C acknowledge EPSRC for PhD studentship support through grant numbers EP/L015110/1 and EP/K503162/1, respectively. D. M. acknowledges support from the International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM). | en |
dc.description.abstract | We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the surface and bulk electronic structure of aluminium diboride, a non-superconducting sister compound of the superconductor MgB2. We perform angle-resolved photoemission measurements with variable photon energy, and compare them with density functional theory calculations, in order to disentangle the surface and bulk contributions to the measured spectra. Aluminium diboride is known to be aluminium deficient, Al1−δB2, which would be expected to lead to a hole doping as compared to the nominally stoichimoetric compound. Nonetheless, we find that the bulk σ states, which mediate superconductivity in MgB2, remain more than 600meV below the Fermi level. However, we also observe σ states originating from the boron terminated surface, with an order of magnitude smaller binding energy of 70meV, and demonstrate how surface hole-doping can bring these across the Fermi level. | |
dc.format.extent | 9 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society. | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | TK | en |
dc.title | Surface and bulk electronic structure of aluminium diboride | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | The Royal Society | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Designer Quantum Materials | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Condensed Matter Physics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.035143 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 714193 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | URF/R/180026 | en |
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